Mitt Romney is beneath the office of Presidency

[chucky2]

I can't believe we could ever be in the position to say the Bush years of fiscal irresponsibility are longed for.

 

[Atreus21]

I can't believe we could ever be in the position to say the Bush years of fiscal irresponsibility are longed for.

I don't long for them. I simply say that as fiscally irresponsible as Bush was, Obama went crazier yet.

 

[Phokus]

I don't long for them. I simply say that as fiscally irresponsible as Bush was, Obama went crazier yet.

Yeah, that's quite an accomplishment. Obama ran a 1.8 trillion dollar deficit in FY 09. He only ran a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit in FY 11. Wow.

And since you want to be stickler, I'll call you out on the bolded "blatantly dishonest statement".

Bush's deficit went down, according to your own link, from 595 billion in FY 04 to 553 billion in FY 05, as well as from 575 billion in FY 06 to 500 billion in FY 07.

Woah big changes there. But if we REALLY wanted to be a stickler for truth, you'd admit that you should really include '09's deficit with Bush since most of the spending is based on what Bush signed into law before he left office.

 

[Phokus]

More on this here Atreus:

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-spending-inferno-or-not/

The truth is that the nearly 18 percent spike in spending in fiscal 2009 — for which the president is sometimes blamed entirely — was mostly due to appropriations and policies that were already in place when Obama took office.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Yes, because Obama started 2 wars and bankrupted the country. Oh wait, no, he took over a steaming pile of shit from Bush.

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

And did nothing to correct the problems.
Bush already started the process to get us out of IRAQ. We ate still in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future.

The deficit went up instead of down as Obama stated he would make it do.

Unemployment has not gotten better.

For those that claim he was.blocked by the rogue Dems, he has demonstrated a willingness to ignore laws and the constitution and govern by fiat.

He dumped a $2000 plus tax on each taxpayer but claims it wad not a tax. USSC says it is and that is why it is allowed.

Transparency never made it up the front stairs.

He walked in the front door with his arms around his favorite lobbyists.

Was handed a 1T check and blew it wastefully because he would not listen to the best way to utilize it. Had to go to political goals and feel good projects.

Those public employee jobs were not saved, just pushed off and are being cut in 2012 and 2013 by governments that still do not have the revenue to support those jobs.

Obama has demonstrated he failure to lead and does not show any improvement. He is asking for a do over. And you trust him to do better.

Obama is unable to defend his record, yet you attack a person that did not destroy a Democratic Blue state.

Romney can not do worse than Obama is doing now.

Obama who is having to start pointing the finger to cover his failures and ignoring the law because he was politically slapped.

What type of leader passed the mantle of responsibility.

Truman must be turning over. "The buck stops here".

Community organizers know how to beg and pass the buck, not be responsible with it. Because it is not their money!

 

[chucky2]

Now, I'm not a political master, but, isn't the budget created and passed by Congress, and then sent to the POTUS to sign? Does not the POTUS then elect to sign it, or, veto it and then it's sent back to Congress to either get the needed votes or submit a revised budget to the POTUS for again another vote?

Or is the budget different from the lawmaking process?

 

[chucky2]

I don't long for them. I simply say that as fiscally irresponsible as Bush was, Obama went crazier yet.

I don't long for them either, unless I'm faced with perpetual $1T+ deficits (can we even say that, if we don't even have a budget?).

 

[Mandres]

Since the deficit is a function of (revenue - expenditures), it's a lot more useful to compare revenues and expenses separately between administrations. Does anyone have a chart for that?

I'd be much more interested in the change in federal expenditure spending from Bush > Obama. Revenues are obviously down because of the implosion in the national economy, so it's not surprising that the deficit under Obama was higher. His administration could have cut spending and still ended up with a higher deficit if revenues were low enough...

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Anyone seriously trying to blame Obama for our nation's debt crisis is not worthy of having an intellectual conversation with.

The reason we are in the place we are in is simple. Two massive unpaid wars. Huge unpaid tax cuts.

Obama had absolutely nothing to do with any of this. This was all Bush and co.

 

[BladeVenom]

It took Bush 8 years to rack up $4 trillion in debt, Obama ran up $4 trillion in debt in only 4 years. Obama is twice as bad as Bush.

 

[werepossum]

It took Bush 8 years to rack up $4 trillion in debt, Obama ran up $4 trillion in debt in only 4 years. Obama is twice as bad as Bush.

Obviously that's because Republican policies are twice as bad when Democrats are in control of them. Wars immediately cost twice as much, tax cuts immediately cost twice as much, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. He's just golfing anyway.

So how's that hopey changey thing working out?

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Obviously that's because Republican policies are twice as bad when Democrats are in control of them. Wars immediately cost twice as much, tax cuts immediately cost twice as much, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. He's just golfing anyway.

You're smart enough to know why Obama ran up more debt per year than Bush did.

Whether you want to know why is a different matter.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Obviously that's because Republican policies are twice as bad when Democrats are in control of them. Wars immediately cost twice as much, tax cuts immediately cost twice as much, and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. He's just golfing anyway.

So how's that hopey changey thing working out?

A possum is a fitting avatar for you. You seriously have without question some of the dumbest takes I've ever seen on this forum. You are second only to cybrsage.

 

[Greenman]

You didn't find Reagan explicitly breaking the law and authorizing the sale of weapons to America's enemies to be more egregious than Clinton getting a blowjob from a staffer?

To be honest, no I didn't. Aside from that, I don't recall Reagan ever being convicted of a crime. Though my memory of that era is a bit vague.

 

[boomerang]

Yes, because Obama started 2 wars and bankrupted the country. Oh wait, no, he took over a steaming pile of shit from Bush.

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

YOU'RE NOT THE SOLUTION.
50 years of Democrat rule in Detroit turned it into the vacation destination it is today. Why would I want you to do that to the entire nation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

YOU'RE NOT THE SOLUTION.
50 years of Democrat rule in Detroit turned it into the vacation destination it is today. Why would I want you to do that to the entire nation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

Blaming the Democratic party for the condition of Detroit is like blaming Cajun food for Hurricane Katrina. Just a transparently glib and nonsensical position to take.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

It took Bush 8 years to rack up $4 trillion in debt, Obama ran up $4 trillion in debt in only 4 years. Obama is twice as bad as Bush.

The only way to think anyone could rationalize something like this would be to think they were being sarcastic.

Otherwise, I fear for you my friend.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

..pointless revisionist history...

Community organizers know how to beg and pass the buck, not be responsible with it. Because it is not their money!

Yes because private enterprise has been such a stalwart steward of other people's money. Like borrowing money to pay out dividends! Now thats what I call responsibility

That quote is pure frosted mini wheats.